The Elusive Skill - Strategic Thinking - How To Get and Measure

The Elusive Skill - Strategic Thinking - How To Get and Measure

Strategic thinking is essential to driving innovation and growth, but many leaders struggle to make it tangible and measurable for their teams. To overcome this challenge, it is important to first identify the unique everyday innovator style of each team member, which can be done through a free assessment. This allows leaders to tap into each team member's natural innovation strengths and provide concrete guidance for them to become better strategic thinkers. In addition, behaviors that reflect strategic thinking and innovation, such as being honest and submitting ideas, can be measured and rewarded to encourage more of them.

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Why Innovation Lists are Worthless

There are flaws in ranking lists of the most innovative firms, as they often only highlight large, well-known companies with good publicity engines but overlook smaller firms that may be doing much more innovation.

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General Mills' Open Innovation Initiative

General Mills' G-WIN initiative focuses on connected innovation, enabling the company to match business needs with the right talent.

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Listen, Watch, Ask, and Involve Your Customers

Innovation requires understanding the needs and wants of customers. Listening, watching, asking, and involving customers are ways to gain insights and become an effective innovator.

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